{"id":2027,"date":"2005-06-23T00:22:20","date_gmt":"2005-06-23T05:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/lets-burn-a-flag\/"},"modified":"2005-06-23T00:22:20","modified_gmt":"2005-06-23T05:22:20","slug":"lets-burn-a-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/lets-burn-a-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"let&#8217;s burn a flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>with the house passing another version of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aclu.org\/FreeSpeech\/FreeSpeechlist.cfm?c=50\">flag-burning amendment<\/a>,  it&#8217;s time,  once again,  for me to toast a flag for free speech.  the vibe on the net is that this is going to be close in the senate.<\/p>\n<p>i guess the first time i did this was sometime in 1991 or 1992 or so.<\/p>\n<p>we&#8217;ve apparently solved all the great problems in our country, so this gets another shot of attention from the patriots in congress.<\/p>\n<p>join me on this coming fourth of july, and toast a flag because good people have died to preserve your right (and mine) to do things that are unpopular and controversial and stupid.<\/p>\n<p>i know the flag is a symbol of increasingly threatened american values and not the sole and vulnerable embodiment of those values.  then again, i&#8217;m a <a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/are_you_considered_a_minority.html\">minority<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(previously <a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/flag_burning_amendment_pending.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/getting_the_important_matters_of_state_addressed.html\">here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafeshops.com\/usingrights\/\" class=\"broken_link\"><img src=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/images\/iPanic_Yellow.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>with the house passing another version of the flag-burning amendment, it&#8217;s time, once again, for me to toast a flag for free speech. the vibe on the net is that this is going to be close in the senate. i guess the first time i did this was sometime in 1991 or 1992 or so. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}